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Not Asia - Australia! And do they call them 'NorthPaws'?

The thing is, who of those guys separated from the pack last season? Guys who are going to be impact pitchers tend to show fast and are generally going to blow through the low minors. Guys who go stop to stop are going to get there at 26 and be back of the rotation or converted to middle relief.

the guys in overall? Daytime talk radio is on 8/5 while they're tearing out your kitchen.

Montero is going to be an innings eater at best, still not clear SGL's stuff is going to play in the majors like it did at AAA, assuming he can stay on the field. Melton is unproven. There are lot of eggs being carried in the Jobe and Olson baskets. Might work out, but that's not much depth given the rate of pitcher wastage.

I have to assume Harris thinks he can just flip the switch on his drafts - go pitching heavy and have Fetter & Co. turn them into several Cy Young candidates in 6 months. Hard to see what other plan is in place.

It's only a shame for the sake of your headline that it's unlikely the team from Minnesota will be involved....

If a big trade is going to work, I think it has to be multiple teams - like the Ganderson/Scherzer deal. That's how you can square the circle between the Tigers wanting ML players or at least ML ready players back but the shoppers who are contenders who want a Carpenter or Mize or Greene or even Skubal want to offer prospects back. But engineering a 3 way trade is going to be quite the leap from a guy who has hardly dipped his toes into serious trade waters since he's been here.

Maybe one of the more undeserved (other than Gibson). This one could have been about 7-3 Vancouver for all the Wing lapses that Gibson covered. If anything the joke on the Canucks was getting some of those gift turnovers too close to the net to maneuver, allowing Gibson to make the play. Nice to see Solderblom doing well the thing the team needs him to do: puck possession.

slipping in a little DD speak!

I saw in the car write-up that they are narrowing tires by an inch. Seems like an interesting decision. Maybe it’s a match to the weight reduction?

Signals are nice, but of course signing him to huge deal would also go a long way towards depleting the resources to sign those additional free agents!

We can only hope the division starts doing the dividing inside MAGA. Seriously, if MTG can pull a few more of her ilk into the attempt at a new coalition it might get interesting. You go girrrl. I've got time and popcorn.

Well of course. That's were the money is. What other felons are as well positioned to make a major payoff.?

Predictable but futile. Once people are tuned into watching prices, which they are today, you can't hide it. In fact inflation is the one place where the public's private sense perception is probably always going to be even worse than the actual numbers (as Biden found out). Well, MTG should have a field day with this.

yeah, I looked this up recently too. It's not quite like it was back in the 10 team days - then it was a pure 50/50 on the gate, but today there are some caps and the other good question I didn't find the answer to is whether seat licensing fees are part of the 'gate'. I sort of doubt it even though they are a major source of overall ticket revenue. It still a better payday for any of the cupcakes than they could get at home.

The other thing we have to keep in mind that you still have interim management in A^2. A decision like a big bucks FB coach seems less likely while an interim is sitting in the President's chair.

Hughes for ASP/Kasper plus picks and a bag of pucks (i.e. Rasmussen), I'm all in -- if that's possible. Add Danielson or Finnie it's getting to be a tougher call. Esp Danielson because we don't know what we have yet.

The only thing I would caution is that we shouldn't think that bringing in Huges solves all their goals against problems because when I watch the Wings - what I see mostly is poor play by their wingers inside the defensive zone - there is only so much two guys can do 2 on 5, which is what it often looks like when a team is pressing the Wings.

they were eventually but they had had Matthews for 5 years before they got past the 1st round. My point being that it's still a team sport. You win across all 20 players. Now I think it is true that a great Dman is worth more than a great front line player in terms of team building just because he is on the ice a third more of the time and Sieder/Hughes/Edvinsson could potentially be a blue line for the ages. You would need a coach that could get out of the traditional boxes to coach that combo though.

Hey - Jake Rogers doesn't suck. He's solid back-up guy. 🫠

I have hard time envisioning the Wings being able to land a player at Hughes level without giving up enough to gut some other aspect of the team. You have to have some player capital to spare to make a trade like that. The Wings have some players that could draw Hughes, but they don't have the depth to replace those players if you give them up - so how does it get you anywhere? Look at Toronto for how far star players on bad teams gets you. Still I wouldn't be surprised - Yzerman always talks about wanting a superstar - how do we get a superstar - it's hard to get a superstar. It's definitely at the top of his list.

If having one good player under control for 6 yrs is good, doesn't having 3 players under control for 6 years have to be better? I don't have that much of a problem logically with the '18yrs of control' statement. To my mind the larger logical fallacy is expecting there is any chance at that all three of the guys you putatively get back in the trade make or stay in the majors for through their arb years.

"A man's got to know his limitations"

LOL - Dollars to donuts which ever of these go through, the combined entity will end up dismembered again inside 10 yrs. These Hollywood/media marriages never seem to go well.

This could all come downs to Scott Harris' self-confidence level. How persuaded is he that he is smarter than the average GM? Is he confident enough that he can pick the return targets in a Skubal trade that with those '18 yrs of control' citing by Olney, he can build a mini-dynasty. Or is he in the "We can't blow this year's chance because the future is dark" camp? In the end, management personalities are often the difference.